What is the soul and how may I approach it?

[Sacred Fool]

It's like a program that converts code into an actual web site you can go to, if you will. It is very much like a machine. It translates the "code" from the higher source into the illusion-at least of physical reality(but I think maybe the greater illusion of the whole octave). This thing, being very mechanistic, I don't think is capable in and of itself of awareness of "Transcendence, Love, or Service to Divinity". Those things are not directly tied to the Demiurge, they come from beyond, they are part of the "code" that gets filtered through, and all though the Demiurge itself doesn't understand them, they still make their way into the illusion.

 
I can't recall the Confederation crowd going in to much detail about the mechanics of the illusion.  Although their emphasis is certainly on spiritual principles, their conceptual explanations do seem to jibe with jafar's presentation in that the construction of illusion is directed by the entity's own biases and predilections.  In other words, one experiences that which one desires to experience until those experiences run their course.

As I read the Confederation model, a being's turning towards Transcendence, Love, Divinity and all that stuff happens on a level which is orthogonal to the personal identity.  Identities come and go with the tides, but the resonance of those deeper qualities lead a being to fall through the looking glass and experience consciousness using organs of awareness different from what we ordinarily employ.  That is, the sacred elements are like the string upon which the "demiurgical" identities are strung.  They are the deeper identity, the deeper impulse which induces your Creation, not some scheming author nor chunk of encoded symbols.  And then the strands of that string of sacred elements trails off into the Mystery of......................................................?